Imaging lens

ABSTRACT

There is provided an imaging lens with high-resolution which satisfies demand of the wide field of view, the low-profileness and the low F-number, and excellently corrects aberrations. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a convex surface facing the object side near an optical axis, a second lens, a third lens having negative refractive power near the optical axis, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens having a concave surface facing the image side and the negative refractive power near the optical axis, wherein an image-side surface of said eighth lens is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one pole point in a position off the optical axis, said sixth lens has positive refractive power near the optical axis, an object-side surface of said seventh lens is a convex surface facing the object side near the optical axis, and a below conditional expression (1) is satisfied: 
       0.15&lt;ν d 7/ν d 8&lt;0.55
     where   νd7: an abbe number at d-ray of the seventh lens,   νd8: an abbe number at d-ray of the eighth lens.

The present application is based on and claims priority of a Japanesepatent application No. 2018-089463 filed on May 7, 2018, the entirecontents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to an imaging lens which forms an image ofan object on a solid-state image sensor such as a CCD sensor or a C-MOSsensor used in an imaging device, and more particularly relates to animaging lens which is built in a smartphone and a mobile phone whichbecome increasingly compact and excellent in performance, an informationterminal such as a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a game console, PCand a robot, and moreover, a home appliance with camera function, amonitoring camera and an automobile.

Description of the Related Art

In recent years, it becomes common that camera function is mounted in ahome appliance, information terminal equipment, an automobile and publictransportation. Demand of products with the camera function is moreincreased, and development of products is being made accordingly.

The imaging lens mounted in such equipment is required to be compact andto have high-resolution performance.

As a conventional imaging lens aiming high performance, for example, theimaging lens disclosed in Patent Document 1 (CN107678140A) has beenknown.

Patent Document 1 discloses an imaging lens comprising, in order from anobject side, a first lens, a second lens having positive refractivepower, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, aseventh lens having a convex surface facing an image side, and an eighthlens.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

However, in lens configurations disclosed in the Patent Document 1, whenwide field of view, low-profileness and low F-number are to be realized,it is very difficult to correct aberrations at a peripheral area, andexcellent optical performance can not be obtained.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-describedproblems, and an object of the present invention is to provide animaging lens with high resolution which satisfies demand of the widefield of view, the low-profileness and the low F-number in well balanceand excellently corrects aberrations.

Regarding terms used in the present invention, “a convex surface”, “aconcave surface” or “a plane surface” of lens surfaces implies that ashape of the lens surface near an optical axis (paraxial portion).“Refractive power” implies the refractive power near the optical axis.“A pole point” implies an off-axial point on an aspheric surface atwhich a tangential plane intersects the optical axis perpendicularly. “ATotal track length” is defined as a distance along the optical axis froman object-side surface of an optical element located closest to theobject to an image plane. “The total track length” and “a back focus” isa distance obtained when thickness of an IR cut filter or a cover glasswhich may be arranged between the imaging lens and the image plane isconverted into an air-converted distance.

An imaging lens according to the present invention comprises, in orderfrom an object side to an image side, a first lens having a convexsurface facing the object side near an optical axis, a second lens, athird lens having negative refractive power near the optical axis, afourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and an eighthlens having a concave surface facing the image side and negativerefractive power near the optical axis, wherein an image-side surface ofthe eighth lens is formed as an aspheric surface having at least onepole point in a position off the optical axis.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,the first lens properly corrects spherical aberration and distortion byhaving the convex surface facing the object side near the optical axis.The second lens properly corrects astigmatism and the distortion. Thethird lens properly corrects the spherical aberration, coma aberrationand chromatic aberration. The fourth lens properly corrects theastigmatism and the astigmatism. The fifth lens properly corrects theastigmatism and the distortion. The sixth lens properly corrects thespherical aberration, the astigmatism, field curvature and thedistortion. The seventh lens properly corrects the astigmatism, thefield curvature and the distortion. The eighth lens properly correctsthe chromatic aberration, the astigmatism, the field curvature and thedistortion. The image-side surface of the eighth lens is a concavesurface facing the image side near the optical axis, and the fieldcurvature and the distortion can be properly corrected and a light rayincident angle to an image sensor can be properly controlled, when theimage-side surface of the eighth lens is formed as the aspheric surfacehaving at least one pole point in a position off the optical axis.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that the second lens has positive refractive power nearthe optical axis.

When the refractive power of the second lens is positive, a total tracklength can be shortened and the astigmatism can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that an image-side surface of the second lens has aconcave surface facing the image side near the optical axis.

When the image-side surface of the second lens has the concave surfacefacing the image side near the optical axis, the field curvature and thedistortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that an image-side surface of the third lens has aconcave surface facing the image side near the optical axis.

When the image-side surface of the third lens has the concave surfacefacing the image side near the optical axis, coma aberration, theastigmatism and the distortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that an image-side surface of the fifth lens has aconcave surface facing the image side near the optical axis.

When the image-side surface of the fifth lens has the concave surfacefacing the image side near the optical axis, the astigmatism and thedistortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that the sixth lens has positive refractive power nearthe optical axis.

When the refractive power of the sixth lens is positive, it is favorablefor low-profileness.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that an image-side surface of the sixth lens has aconvex surface facing the image side near the optical axis.

When the image-side surface of the sixth lens has the convex surfacefacing the image side near the optical axis, the light ray incidentangle to the image-side surface of the sixth lens can be appropriatelycontrolled, and the astigmatism, the field curvature and the distortioncan be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that an object-side surface of the seventh lens has aconvex surface facing the object side near the optical axis.

When the object-side surface of the seventh lens has the convex surfacefacing the object side near the optical axis, the astigmatism can beproperly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that an image-side surface of the seventh lens has aconcave surface facing the image side near the optical axis.

When the image-side surface of the seventh lens has the concave surfacefacing the image side near the optical axis, the astigmatism and thedistortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that the object-side surface of the seventh lens isformed as an aspheric surface having at least one pole point in aposition off the optical axis.

When the object-side surface of the seventh lens is formed as anaspheric surface having at least one pole point in a position off theoptical axis, the field curvature and the distortion can be properlycorrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that the image-side surface of the seventh lens isformed as an aspheric surface having at least one pole point in aposition off the optical axis.

When the image-side surface of the seventh lens is formed as an asphericsurface having at least one pole point in a position off the opticalaxis, the field curvature and the distortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (1) is satisfied:

0.15<νd7/νd8<0.55  (1)

whereνd7: an abbe number at d-ray of the seventh lens,νd8: an abbe number at d-ray of the eighth lens.

The conditional expression (1) defines an appropriate range of therespective abbe numbers at d-ray of the seventh lens and the eighthlens. By satisfying the conditional expression (1), the chromaticaberration can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (2) is satisfied:

0.50<(D1/|f|)×100<13.00  (2)

whereD1: a thickness along the optical axis of the first lens,f1: a focal length of the first lens.

The conditional expression (2) defines an appropriate range of athickness along the optical axis of the first lens. When a value isbelow the upper limit of the conditional expression (2), the thicknessalong the optical axis of the first lens is suppressed from being toolarge, and an air gap of the image side of the first lens can be easilysecured. As a result, the low-profileness can be maintained. On theother hand, when the value is above the lower limit of the conditionalexpression (2), the thickness along the optical axis of the first lensis suppressed from being too small, and the formability of the lensbecomes excellent.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (3) is satisfied:

3.00<(D7/TTL)×100<8.70  (3)

whereD7: a thickness along the optical axis of the seventh lens, andTTL: a total track length.

The conditional expression (3) defines an appropriate range of athickness along the optical axis of the seventh lens. When a value isbelow the upper limit of the conditional expression (3), the thicknessalong the optical axis of the seventh lens is suppressed from being toolarge, and an air gap of the object side and the image side of theseventh lens can be easily secured. As a result, the low-profileness canbe maintained. On the other hand, when the value is above the lowerlimit of the conditional expression (3), the thickness along the opticalaxis of the seventh lens is suppressed from being too small, and theformability of the lens becomes excellent.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (4) is satisfied:

0.30<D4/D8<1.20  (4)

whereD4: a thickness along the optical axis of the fourth lens,D8: a thickness along the optical axis of the eighth lens.

The conditional expression (4) defines an appropriate range of thethickness along the optical axis of the fourth lens and the thicknessalong the optical axis of the eighth lens. By satisfying the conditionalexpression (4), difference between the thickness of the fourth lens andthe thickness of the eighth lens is suppressed from being increased, andthe low-profileness is achieved.

Furthermore, by satisfying the conditional expression (4), the sphericalaberration and the distortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (5) is satisfied:

0.40<D7/D8<1.40  (5)

whereD7: the thickness along the optical axis of the seventh lens,D8: the thickness along the optical axis of the eighth lens.

The conditional expression (5) defines an appropriate range of thethickness along the optical axis of the seventh lens and the thicknessalong the optical axis of the eighth lens. By satisfying the conditionalexpression (5), difference between the thickness of the seventh lens andthe thickness of the eighth lens is suppressed from being increased, andthe low-profileness is achieved.

Furthermore, by satisfying the conditional expression (5), theastigmatism and the distortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (6) is satisfied:

0.30<f6/f<4.50  (6)

wheref6: a focal length of the sixth lens, andf: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens.

The conditional expression (6) defines an appropriate range ofrefractive power of the sixth lens. When a value is below the upperlimit of the conditional expression (6), the positive refractive powerof the sixth lens becomes appropriate, and the low-profileness can beachieved. On the other hand, when the value is above the lower limit ofthe conditional expression (6), the astigmatism, the field curvature andthe distortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (7) is satisfied:

1.40<|f7|/f  (7)

wheref7: a focal length of the seventh lens, andf: the focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens.

The conditional expression (7) defines an appropriate range ofrefractive power of the seventh lens. When the value is above the lowerlimit of the conditional expression (7), the distortion can be properlycorrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (8) is satisfied:

−1.90<f8/f<−0.60  (8)

wheref8: a focal length of the eighth lens, andf: the focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens.

The conditional expression (8) defines an appropriate range ofrefractive power of the eighth lens. When a value is below the upperlimit of the conditional expression (8), negative refractive power ofthe eighth lens becomes appropriate, and it is favorable for thelow-profileness. On the other hand, when the value is above the lowerlimit of the conditional expression (8), the chromatic aberration, theastigmatism and the distortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (9) is satisfied:

0.70<r4/f<2.70  (9)

wherer4: paraxial curvature radius of the image-side surface of the secondlens, andf: the focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens.

The conditional expression (9) defines an appropriate range of theparaxial curvature radius of the image-side surface of the second lens.When a value is below the upper limit of the conditional expression (9),the astigmatism and the distortion can be properly corrected. On theother hand, when the value is above the lower limit of the conditionalexpression (9), the coma aberration can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (10) is satisfied:

−3.00<r12/f<−0.20  (10)

wherer12: paraxial curvature radius of the image-side surface of the sixthlens, andf: the focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens.

The conditional expression (10) defines an appropriate range of theparaxial curvature radius of the image-side surface of the sixth lens.By satisfying the conditional expression (10), the astigmatism, thefield curvature and the distortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (11) is satisfied:

0.10<(T4/TTL)×100<2.45  (11)

whereT4: a distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of thefourth lens to an object-side surface of the fifth lens, andTTL: a total track length.

The conditional expression (11) defines an appropriate range of thedistance along the optical axis between the fourth lens and the fifthlens. By satisfying the conditional expression (11), the astigmatism andthe field curvature can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (12) is satisfied:

1.20<|f1|/f<9.50  (12)

wheref1: a focal length of the first lens, andf: the focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens.

The conditional expression (12) defines an appropriate range ofrefractive power of the first lens. By satisfying the conditionalexpression (12), the total track length can be shortened and thechromatic aberration, the astigmatism, the field curvature and thedistortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that a below conditional expression (13) is satisfied:

3.80<|f4|/f  (13)

wheref4: a focal length of the fourth lens, andf: the focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens.

The conditional expression (13) defines an appropriate range ofrefractive power of the fourth lens. When a value is above the lowerlimit of the conditional expression (13), the coma aberration, theastigmatism and the distortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that composite refractive power of the third lens andthe fourth lens is negative, and is more preferable that a belowconditional expression (14) is satisfied:

−8.50≤f34/f<−1.00  (14)

wheref34: a composite focal length of the third lens and the fourth lens, andf: the focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens.

When the composite refractive power of the third lens and the fourthlens is negative, the chromatic aberration can be properly corrected.Furthermore, the conditional expression (14) defines an appropriaterange of the composite refractive power of the third lens and the fourthlens. When a value is below the upper limit of the conditionalexpression (14), the negative composite refractive power of the thirdlens and the fourth lens becomes appropriate, and the chromaticaberration can be corrected and the low-profileness can be achieved. Onthe other hand, when the value is above the lower limit of theconditional expression (14), the chromatic aberration and the sphericalaberration can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration,it is preferable that composite refractive power of the fifth lens andthe sixth lens is positive, and is more preferable that a belowconditional expression (15) is satisfied:

0.35<f56/f<3.40  (15)

wheref56: a composite focal length of the fifth lens and the sixth lens, andf: the focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens.

When the composite refractive power of the fifth lens and the sixth lensis positive, it is favorable for the low-profileness. Furthermore, theconditional expression (15) defines an appropriate range of thecomposite refractive power of the fifth lens and the sixth lens. When avalue is below the upper limit of the conditional expression (15), thepositive composite refractive power of the fifth lens and the sixth lensbecomes appropriate, and the low-profileness can be achieved. On theother hand, when the value is above the lower limit of the conditionalexpression (15), the astigmatism, the field curvature and the distortioncan be properly corrected.

Effect of Invention

According to the present invention, there can be provided an imaginglens with high resolution which satisfies demand of the wide field ofview, the low-profileness and the low F-number in well balance, andproperly corrects aberrations.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 1according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 1 according to the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 2according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 2 according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 3according to the present invention;

FIG. 6 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 3 according to the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 4according to the present invention;

FIG. 8 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 4 according to the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 5according to the present invention;

FIG. 10 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 5 according to the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 6according to the present invention;

FIG. 12 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 6 according to the present invention;

FIG. 13 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 7according to the present invention;

FIG. 14 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 7 according to the present invention;

FIG. 15 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 8according to the present invention;

FIG. 16 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 8 according to the present invention;

FIG. 17 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 9according to the present invention;

FIG. 18 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 9 according to the present invention;

FIG. 19 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 10according to the present invention;

FIG. 20 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 10 according to the present invention;

FIG. 21 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 11according to the present invention;

FIG. 22 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 11 according to the present invention;

FIG. 23 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 12according to the present invention;

FIG. 24 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 12 according to the present invention;

FIG. 25 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 13according to the present invention;

FIG. 26 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 13 according to the present invention;

FIG. 27 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 14according to the present invention;

FIG. 28 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 14 according to the present invention;

FIG. 29 is a schematic view showing an imaging lens in Example 15according to the present invention;

FIG. 30 shows spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of theimaging lens in Example 15 according to the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Hereinafter, the preferred embodiments of the present invention will bedescribed in detail referring to the accompanying drawings.

FIGS. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 29 areschematic views of the imaging lenses in Examples 1 to 15 according tothe embodiments of the present invention, respectively.

As shown in FIG. 1, the imaging lens according to the present embodimentcomprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens L1having a convex surface facing the object side near an optical axis X, asecond lens L2, a third lens L3 having negative refractive power nearthe optical axis X, a fourth lens L4, a fifth lens L5, a sixth lens L6,a seventh lens L7 and an eighth lens L8 having a concave surface facingthe image side and negative refractive power near the optical axis X. Animage-side surface of the eighth lens L8 is formed as an asphericsurface having at least one pole point in a position off the opticalaxis X.

A filter IR such as an IR cut filter and a cover glass are arrangedbetween the eighth lens L8 and an image plane IMG (namely, the imageplane of an image sensor). The filter IR is omissible.

By arranging an aperture stop ST on the object side of the first lensL1, correction of aberrations and control of an incident angle of thelight ray of high image height to the image sensor become facilitated.

The first lens L1 has a convex surface facing the object side near theoptical axis X and has a meniscus shape having a concave surface facingthe image side. Therefore, spherical aberration, astigmatism anddistortion can be properly corrected.

The second lens L2 has a convex surface facing the object side near theoptical axis X and has the meniscus shape having a concave surfacefacing the image side. Therefore, the spherical aberration, theastigmatism, field curvature and the distortion can be properlycorrected.

The third lens L3 has negative refractive power and has the meniscusshape having a convex surface facing the object side and a concavesurface facing the image side near the optical axis X. Therefore,chromatic aberration, the spherical aberration, coma aberration, theastigmatism and the distortion can be properly corrected.

The fourth lens L4 has the negative refractive power and has themeniscus shape having a convex surface facing the object side and aconcave surface facing the image side near the optical axis X.Therefore, the coma aberration, the astigmatism and the distortion canbe properly corrected. The refractive power of the fourth lens L4 may bepositive as in the Examples 8, 11, 14 and 15 shown in FIGS. 15, 21, 27and 29. In this situation, low-profileness is more facilitated.Furthermore, a shape of the fourth lens L4 may be the meniscus shapehaving a concave surface facing the object side and a convex surfacefacing the image side near the optical axis X as in the Examples 2, 3,4, 5, 6 and 7 shown in FIGS. 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13. In this case, alight ray incident angle to the fourth lens L4 becomes appropriate andthe astigmatism, the field curvature and the distortion are properlycorrected.

The fifth lens L5 has positive refractive power and has the meniscusshape having a convex surface facing the object side and a concavesurface facing the image side near the optical axis X. Therefore, theastigmatism and the distortion are properly corrected while maintainingthe low-profileness. The refractive power of the fifth lens L5 may benegative as in the Examples 9 and 15 shown in FIGS. 17 and 29, and inthis situation, it is favorable for correction of the chromaticaberration. Furthermore, a shape of the fifth lens L5 may be themeniscus shape having a concave surface facing the object side and aconvex surface facing the image side near the optical axis X as in theExample 3 shown in FIG. 5. In this case, a light ray incident angle tothe fifth lens L5 becomes appropriate, and the coma aberration, theastigmatism and the distortion are properly corrected. As in the Example10 shown in FIG. 19, the fifth lens L5 may have a biconvex shape havingthe convex surfaces facing the object side and the image side near theoptical axis X. In this case, the positive refractive power of the bothsides become favorable for the low-profileness. Furthermore, thebiconvex shape suppresses curvature from being large, and effectivelyreduces sensitivity to a manufacturing error.

The sixth lens L6 has the biconvex shape having convex surfaces facingthe object side and the image side near the optical axis X. Therefore,by positive refractive power of the both sides, the low-profileness isachieved. Furthermore, the biconvex shape suppresses curvature frombeing large, and reduces sensitivity to the manufacturing error.

The seventh lens L7 has the positive refractive power and has themeniscus shape having a convex surface facing the object side and aconcave surface facing the image side near the optical axis X.Therefore, the astigmatism, the field curvature and the distortion areproperly corrected. The refractive power of the seventh lens L7 may benegative as in the Examples 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 shown in FIGS. 9, 11, 13,15 and 17, and it is favorable for correction of the chromaticaberration.

The object-side surface and the image-side surface of the seventh lensL7 are formed as aspheric surfaces having at least one pole point in aposition off the optical axis X, therefore, the field curvature and thedistortion are properly corrected.

The eighth lens L8 has the negative refractive power and has themeniscus shape having a convex surface facing the object side and aconcave surface facing the image side near the optical axis X, thereforethe chromatic aberration, the astigmatism, the field curvature and thedistortion are properly corrected. A shape of the eighth lens L8 may bea biconcave shape having the concave surfaces facing the object side andthe image side near the optical axis X as in the Example 8 shown in FIG.15. In this case, the negative refractive power of the both sides isfavorable for correction of the chromatic aberration, and the biconcaveshape suppresses curvature from being large, and reduces sensitivity tothe manufacturing error.

The image-side surface of the eighth lens L8 is formed as the asphericsurface having at least one pole point in a position off the opticalaxis X, therefore the field curvature and the distortion are moreproperly corrected and a light ray incident angle to an image sensor isappropriately controlled.

Regarding the imaging lens according to the present embodiments, it ispreferable that all lenses of the first lens L1 to the eighth lens L8are single lenses. Configuration with only the single lenses canfrequently use the aspheric surfaces. In the present embodiments, alllens-surfaces are formed as the appropriate aspherical surfaces, andproper correction of aberrations is made. In comparison with the case inwhich a cemented lens is used, workload is reduced, and manufacturing inlow cost becomes possible.

Furthermore, the imaging lens according to the present embodiments makesmanufacturing facilitated by using plastic material for all of thelenses, and mass production in a low cost can be realized.

The material applied to the lens is not limited to the plastic material.By using glass material, further high performance may be aimed. It ispreferable that all of lens-surfaces are formed as aspheric surfaces,however, spherical surfaces easy to be manufactured may be adopted inaccordance with required performance.

The imaging lens according to the present embodiments shows preferableeffect by satisfying the below conditional expressions (1) to (15).

0.15<νd7/νd8<0.55  (1)

0.50<(D1/|f|)×100<13.00  (2)

3.00<(D7/TTL)×100<8.70  (3)

0.30<D4/D8<1.20  (4)

0.40<D7/D8<1.40  (5)

0.30<f6/f<4.50  (6)

1.40<|f7|/f  (7)

−1.90<f8/f<−0.60  (8)

0.70<r4/f<2.70  (9)

−3.00<r12/f<−0.20  (10)

0.10<(T4/TTL)×100<2.45  (11)

1.20<|f1|/f<9.50  (12)

3.80<|f4|/f  (13)

−8.50<f34/f<−1.00  (14)

0.35<f56/f<3.40  (15)

whereνd7: an abbe number at d-ray of the seventh lens L7,νd8: an abbe number at d-ray of the eighth lens L8,D1: a thickness along the optical axis X of the first lens L1,D4: a thickness along the optical axis X of the fourth lens L4,D7: a thickness along the optical axis X of the seventh lens L7,D8: a thickness along the optical axis X of the eighth lens L8,T4: a distance along the optical axis X from an image-side surface ofthe fourth lens L4 to an object-side surface of the fifth lens L5,TTL: a total track length,f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens,f1: a focal length of the first lens L1,f4: a focal length of the fourth lens L4,f6: a focal length of the sixth lens L6,f7: a focal length of the seventh lens L7,f8: a focal length of the eighth lens L8,f34: a composite focal length of the third lens L3 and the fourth lensL4,f56: a composite focal length of the fifth lens L5 and the sixth lensL6,r4: paraxial curvature radius of the image-side surface of the secondlens L2,r12: paraxial curvature radius of the image-side surface of the sixthlens L6.

It is not necessary to satisfy the above all conditional expressions,and by satisfying the conditional expression individually, operationaladvantage corresponding to each conditional expression can be obtained.

The imaging lens according to the present embodiments shows furtherpreferable effect by satisfying the below conditional expressions (1a)to (15a).

0.25<νd7/νd8<0.45  (1a)

0.75<(D1/|f1|)×100<11.00  (2a)

4.50<(D7/TTL)×100<8.00  (3a)

0.45<D4/D8<1.00  (4a)

0.60<D7/D8<1.20  (5a)

0.55<f6/f<3.50  (6a)

2.00<|f7|/f  (7a)

−1.50<f8/f<−0.70  (8a)

1.10<r4/f<2.30  (9a)

−2.40<r12/f<−0.30  (10a)

0.20<(T4/TTL)×100<2.10  (11a)

1.40<|f1|/f<8.00  (12a)

5.00<|f4|/f  (13a)

−7.00<f34/f<−1.50  (14a)

0.55<56/f<2.80  (15a)

The signs in the above conditional expressions have the same meanings asthose in the paragraph before the preceding paragraph.

In this embodiment, the aspheric shapes of the surfaces of the asphericlens are expressed by Equation 1, where Z denotes an axis in the opticalaxis direction, H denotes a height perpendicular to the optical axis, Rdenotes a paraxial curvature radius, k denotes a conic constant, and A4,A6, A8, A10, A12, A14, A16, A18 and A20 denote aspheric surfacecoefficients.

$\begin{matrix}{Z = {\frac{\frac{H^{2}}{R}}{1 + \sqrt{1 - {\left( {k + 1} \right)\frac{H^{2}}{R^{2}}}}} + {A_{4}H^{4}} + {A_{6}H^{6}} + {A_{8}H^{8}} + {A_{10}H^{10}} + {A_{12}H^{12}} + {A_{14}H^{14}} + {A_{16}H^{16}} + {A_{18}H^{18}} + {A_{20}H^{20}}}} & {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 1}\end{matrix}$

Next, examples of the imaging lens according to this embodiment will beexplained. In each example, f denotes the focal length of the overalloptical system of the imaging lens, Fno denotes a F-number, ω denotes ahalf field of view, ih denotes a maximum image height, and TTL denotes atotal track length. Additionally, i denotes surface number counted fromthe object side, r denotes paraxial curvature radius, d denotes thedistance of lenses along the optical axis (surface distance), Nd denotesa refractive index at d-ray (reference wavelength), and νd denotes anabbe number at d-ray. As for aspheric surfaces, an asterisk (*) is addedafter surface number i.

Example 1

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 1.

TABLE 1 Example 1 Unit mm f = 4.70

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.70 TTL = 5.86 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1(Stop) Infinity −0.2335  2* 2.14890.5891 1.544 55.86 (ν d1)  3* 3.9663 0.0762  4* 3.5173 0.4018 1.54455.86 (ν d2)  5* 8.2118 0.0500  6* 4.4637 0.2400 1.671 10.48 (ν d3)  7*2.8249 0.4049  8* 21.9770 0.2800 1.651 20.37 (ν d4)  9* 16.6105 0.105010* 8.2840 0.4674 1.635 55.66 (ν d5) 11* 10.0000 0.0659 12* 10.09050.6089 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −5.2302 0.1870 14* 5.1665 0.3600 1.67119.48 (ν d7) 15* 6.0405 0.3882 16* 7.1580 0.4430 1.535 59.56 (ν d8) 17*1.6776 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 64.20 19  Infinity 0.3120 ImagePlane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Lens Start Surface Focal LengthComposite Focal Length 1 2 7.760 f 34 −10.835 2 4 10.973 f 56 6.110 3 6−12.177 4 8 −105.133 5 10 82.440 6 12 6.419 7 14 45.630 8 16 −4.215Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh EighthNinth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −1.740052E+02 A4  3.278810E−03 −4.553414E−02−5.956228E−02 −1.318761E−01 −1.373723E−01 −3.655549E−02 −3.693839E−02−7.704056E−02 A6 −3.088762E−02 −4.650473E−03 −8.599440E−04  1.659148E−01 1.888061E−01 −1.569586E−03  5.568778E−02  1.304304E−01 A8  8.549144E−02 8.109592E−02  8.004349E−02 −1.065876E−01 −8.914701E−02  3.170746E−01−2.484203E−01 −2.756729E−01 A10 −1.394918E−01 −1.916615E−01−2.288787E−01 −1.535064E−01 −2.847622E−01 −1.132073E+00  4.288311E−01 3.368272E−01 A12  1.395691E−01  2.600205E−01  3.475131E−01 4.963610E−01  8.036273E−01  2.196519E+00 −3.942007E−01 −2.436046E−01A14 −8.814981E−02 −1.011713E−01 −2.980638E−01 −5.930845E−01−9.989510E−01 −2.579527E+00  9.702211E−02  8.216253E−02 A16 3.405850E−02  8.554938E−02  1.471429E−01  3.776154E−01  6.833954E−01 1.925123E+00  1.387973E−01  7.135021E−03 A18 −7.339694E−03−2.100502E−02 −3.946668E−02 −1.266648E−01 −2.480365E−01 −7.167524E−01−1.255342E−01 −1.441548E−02 A20  6.551611E−04  2.196603E−03 4.521132E−03  1.764291E−02  3.738156E−02  1.206119E−01  3.249874E−02 3.288177E−03 Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth FifteenthSixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface SurfaceSurface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00−6.516982E+00 −1.082492E+01  0.000000E+00 −1.664901E+02 −6.800000E+00 A4−1.439133E−01 −1.132796E−01 −2.079467E−02  5.588729E−03  3.478317E−02 5.148528E−02 −1.749188E−01 −1.097408E−01 A6  1.941093E−01  7.810621E−02 1.750870E−02 −5.574784E−02 −1.420925E−01 −1.485537E−01  4.793593E−02 4.927783E−02 A8 −2.689332E−01 −9.321089E−02 −2.715955E−02  8.901582E−02 1.095813E−01  1.094306E−01 −2.117841E−07 −1.535821E−02 A10 2.928323E−01  9.339036E−02  1.659862E−02 −7.573238E−02 −4.773375E−02−5.011567E−02 −3.784729E−00  3.586298E−03 A12 −2.025321E−01−6.540855E−02 −7.654682E−03  3.712636E−02  9.821796E−03  1.467193E−02 1.337803E−03 −6.211681E−04 A14  8.792582E−02  3.320544E−02 2.075643E−03 −1.116549E−02  1.308786E−04 −2.673953E−03 −2.468928E−04 2.461950E−05 A16 −2.365986E−02 −1.109601E−02 −1.053879E−04 2.064052E−03 −4.696752E−04  2.567530E−04  2.628429E−05 −5.747958E−08A18  3.661907E−03  2.088349E−03 −8.983667E−05 −2.161230E−04 8.392781E−05 −1.595739E−05 −1.521484E−06  2.534126E−07 A20−2.515838E−04 −1.647862E−04  1.569178E−05  9.768236E−06 −4.890149E−05 3.293750E−07  3.713891E−08 −4.858512E−09

indicates data missing or illegible when filed

The imaging lens in Example 1 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 2 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion(%) of the imaging lens in Example 1. The spherical aberration diagramshows the amount of aberration at wavelengths of F-ray (486 nm), d-ray(588 nm), and C-ray (656 nm). The astigmatism diagram shows the amountof aberration at d-ray on a sagittal image surface S (solid line) and ontangential image surface T (broken line), respectively (same as FIGS. 4,6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30). As shown in FIG.2, each aberration is corrected excellently.

Example 2

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 2.

TABLE 2 Example 2 Unit mm f = 4.77

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.70 TTL = 5.86 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1(Stop) Infinity −0.2439  2* 2.14480.5755 1.544 55.86 (ν d1)  3* 4.0565 0.0822  4* 3.5793 0.4020 1.54455.86 (ν d2)  5* 8.6562 0.0500  6* 4.6704 0.2400 1.671 10.48 (ν d3)  7*2.9050 0.4281  8* −96.9778 0.2835 1.651 20.37 (ν d4)  9* −133.03590.0892 10* 9.2794 0.4336 1.535 55.66 (ν d5) 11* 10.0114 0.3770 12*11.7892 0.6063 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −4.8922 0.1810 14* 5.2085 0.36001.671 19.48 (ν d7) 15* 5.9489 0.3839 16* 7.2542 0.4430 1.535 59.68 (νd8) 17* 1.6748 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 64.20 19  Infinity0.3139 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Lens Start SurfaceFocal Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 7.559 f 34 −11.730 2 4 10.908 f56 6.351 3 6 −12.108 4 8 −381.155 5 10 156.698 6 12 6.434 7 14 52.151 816 −4.188 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth SeventhEighth Ninth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface SurfaceSurface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −1.740052E+02 A4  3.280270E−03−4.458300E−02 −5.957149E−02 −1.313753E−01 −1.366096E−01 −3.594829E−02−2.787327E−02 −7.250395E−02 A6 −3.088110E−02 −5.941053E−03  4.823494E−04 1.648580E−01  1.925996E−01  9.580209E−04  1.737558E−02  1.170215E−01 A8 8.547223E−02  7.906815E−02  6.728963E−02 −1.108603E−01 −1.228795E−01 2.897103E−01 −1.265013E−01 −2.557525E−01 A10 −1.395087E−01−1.834124E−01 −1.948095E−01 −1.308885E−01 −1.783848E−01 −1.037364E+00 1.291478E−01  3.025491E−01 A12  1.395619E−01  2.381546E−01 3.010745E−01  4.508870E−01  6.152200E−01  2.008225E+00  1.082785E−01−1.839334E−01 A14 −8.815076E−02 −1.823679E−01 −2.620915E−01−5.450621E−01 −7.996456E−01 −2.355540E+00 −4.542949E−01  1.776438E−02A16  3.405951E−02  8.218827E−02  1.315705E−01  3.495623E−01 5.591269E−01  1.588156E+00  5.183737E−01  4.595237E−02 A18−7.338775E−03 −2.041870E−02 −3.611067E−02 −1.180023E−01 −2.060310E−01−6.576554E−01 −2.749286E−01 −2.667277E−02 A20  6.555106E−04 2.170486E−03  4.269588E−03  1.659708E−02  3.146939E−02  1.115736E−01 5.827791E−02  4.889530E−03 Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth FourteenthFifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface Surface SurfaceSurface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00−6.722161E+00 −1.063399E+01  0.000000E+00 −1.684901E+02 −6.650003E+00 A4−1.469480E−01 −1.148376E−01 −2.031650E−02  1.982024E−03  2.528218E−02 4.585699E−02 −1.782452E−01 −1.083260E−01 A6  2.132773E−01  7.824884E−02 1.847022E−02 −4.590325E−02 −1.298149E−01 −1.403543E−01  5.430419E−02 4.898167E−02 A8 −3.279724E−01 −8.953735E−02 −2.901374E−02  8.198174E−02 1.007761E−01  1.031580E−01 −6.622975E−03 −1.865709E−02 A10 3.925639E−01  8.352678E−02  1.857638E−02 −7.320965E−02 −4.360969E−02−4.591506E−02 −4.417429E−04  3.759154E−03 A12 −2.978091E−01−5.265202E−02 −5.843022E−03  3.702096E−02  8.687972E−03  1.360314E−02 3.885740E−04 −6.804882E−04 A14  1.412112E−01  2.439921E−02 2.746843E−03 −1.138812E−02  2.787417E−04 −2.447086E−03 −8.639495E−05 7.925314E−05 A16 −4.107404E−02 −7.853119E−03 −3.525239E−04 2.141188E−03 −4.699577E−04  2.576841E−04  1.013429E−05 −6.035598E−06A18  6.751202E−03  1.492778E−03 −4.400230E−05 −2.272373E−04 8.197480E−05 −1.393733E−05 −6.245518E−07  2.614425E−07 A20−4.826255E−04 −1.222214E−04  1.250859E−05  1.039453E−05 −4.745481E−05 2.724598E−07  1.588742E−08 −4.908555E−09

indicates data missing or illegible when filed

The imaging lens in Example 2 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 4 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion(%) of the imaging lens in Example 2. As shown in FIG. 4, eachaberration is corrected excellently.

Example 3

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 3.

TABLE 3 Example 3 Unit mm f = 4.77

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.70 TTL = 5.89 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1(Stop) Infinity −0.2435  2* 2.16050.5744 1.544 55.86 (ν d1)  3* 4.0525 0.0844  4* 3.5251 0.4033 1.54455.86 (ν d2)  5* 8.3647 0.0500  6* 4.8738 0.2400 1.671 10.48 (ν d3)  7*3.0968 0.4169  8* −86.9778 0.2863 1.651 20.37 (ν d4)  9* −133.03590.0833 10* −3457.3740 0.4674 1.535 55.66 (ν d5) 11* −80.4628 0.3991 12*10.1865 0.5933 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −5.3295 0.1818 14* 5.3474 0.36001.671 19.48 (ν d7) 15* 5.7872 0.3693 16* 7.0744 0.4430 1.535 55.68 (νd8) 17* 1.6896 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 64.20 19  Infinity0.3177 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Lens Start SurfaceFocal Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 7.680 f 34 −12.929 2 4 10.874 f56 6.277 3 6 −13.377 4 8 −381.164 5 10 154.029 6 12 6.516 7 14 78.872 816 −4.206 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth SeventhEighth Ninth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface SurfaceSurface k  0.000000E+00 0 .000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −1.740052E+02 A4  3.412678E−03−4.424684E−02 −5.869229E−02 −1.307331E−01 −1.376112E−01 −3.453295E−02−3.097143E−02 −5.768079E−02 A6 −3.074040E−02 −1.061449E−02 −2.506692E−03 1.516161E−01  1.902821E−01 −1.407239E−02  2.144994E−02  9.286574E−02 A8 8.551929E−02  9.491259E−02  7.883070E−02 −4.698937E−02 −9.204443E−02 3.753712E−01 −1.448228E−01 −2.778051E−01 A10 −1.395048E−01−2.179896E−01 −2.240067E−01 −2.806889E−01 −2.636456E−01 −1.292432E+00 1.646730E−01  4.231874E−01 A12  1.395598E−01  2.862987E−01 3.478678E−01  6.613938E−01  7.406626E−01  2.462505E+00  1.041061E−01−3.700268E−01 A14 −8.815036E−02 −2.245263E−01 −3.086979E−01−7.316904E−01 −9.134933E−01 −2.865478E+00 −6.367006E−01  1.813477E−01A16  3.407110E−02  1.042955E−01  1.591194E−01  4.517063E−01 6.234154E−01  2.022937E+00  6.380524E−01 −4.065195E−02 A18−7.337411E−03 −2.670548E−02 −4.490927E−02 −1.496723E−01 −2.269853E−01−7.983052E−01 −3.452277E−01 −1.434414E−03 A20  6.563808E−04 2.912898E−03  5.438238E−03  2.086284E−02  3.451827E−02  1.380539E−01 7.402241E−02  1.825860E−03 Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth FourteenthFifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface Surface SurfaceSurface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00−6.279545E+00 −8.178149E+00 0.000000E+00 −1.684901E+02 −6.300548E+00 A4−1.153818E−01 −1.054318E−01 −1.996238E−02 −2.034972E−04  6.721009E−03 2.829086E−02 −1.682974E−01 −1.070705E−01 A6  1.482735E−01  6.842962E−02 2.385353E−02 −2.838965E−03 −7.404897E−02 −1.030887E−01  4.142839E−02 4.642569E−02 A8 −2.695209E−01 −1.233397E−01 −4.953416E−02  5.448793E−03 3.948503E−02  6.591759E−02  5.919284E−04 −1.411484E−02 A10 3.358251E−01  1.663845E−01  3.545708E−02 −1.560375E−02 −8.689166E−03−2.572345E−02 −2.447584E−03  3.229687E−03 A12 −2.139190E−01−1.417877E−01 −1.431445E−02  1.224195E−02  2.378118E−03  6.790914E−03 6.815469E−04 −5.425407E−04 A14  6.355791E−02  7.997095E−02 2.983030E−03 −4.733048E−03  2.164998E−03 −1.037711E−03 −1.055293E−04 6.240168E−05 A16 −3.795573E−03 −2.826269E−02 −1.977734E−05 1.023396E−03 −8.058639E−04  8.325653E−05  9.926208E−06 −4.555244E−06A18 −2.103884E−03  5.563336E−03 −1.327896E−04 −1.191768E−04 7.947654E−05 −2.115955E−06 −5.254533E−07  1.889534E−07 A20 3.467348E−04 −4.604956E−04  1.978557E−05  5.812544E−06 −4.132435E−06−6.399841E−08  1.193602E−08 −3.392882E−09

indicates data missing or illegible when filed

The imaging lens in Example 3 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 6 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion(%) of the imaging lens in Example 3. As shown in FIG. 6, eachaberration is corrected excellently.

Example 4

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 4.

TABLE 4 Example4 Unit mm f = 4.76

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.70 TTL = 5.86 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1 (Stop) Infinity −0.2533   2*2.1576 0.5748 1.544 55.86 (ν d1)  3* 4.0785 0.0820  4* 3.5169 0.40211.544 55.86 (ν d2)  5* 8.3224 0.0500  6* 4.7924 0.2400 1.671 19.48 (νd3)  7* 3.0809 0.4584  8* −10.0000   0.2813 1.661 20.37 (ν d4)  9*−15.2520   0.0364 10* 7.4579 0.4501 1.535 65.66 (ν d5) 11* 10.4143 0.3944 12* 16.5780  0.5826 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −4.3540  0.1773 14*5.0003 0.3500 1.671 19.46 (ν d7) 15* 5.8617 0.3883 16* 6.7723 0.44301.535 55.66 (ν d8) 17* 1.7024 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 64.20 19 Infinity 0.3121 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Start FocalLens Surface Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 7.514 f34 −10.473 2 410.869 f56    5.923 3 6 −13.517 4 8 −44.908 5 10 48.547 6 12 6.539 7 1443.393 8 16 −4.038 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth SixthSurface Surface Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4  3.837166E−03 −4.474240E−02−6.225584E−02 −1.800390E−01 −1.305263E−01 A6 −3.065587E−02 −6.017387E−03 5.724039E−03  1.593343E−01  1.840252E−01 A8  8.549903E−02  8.916743E−02 6.482711E−02 −1.029298E−01 −1.276261E−01 A10 −1.396448E−01−2.125939E−01 −2.038704E−01 −1.421365E−01 −1.519161E−01 A12 1.396352E−01  2.765852E−01  3.165110E−01  4.611165E−01  5.705177E−01A14 −8.816920E−02 −2.126016E−01 −2.743903E−01 −6.457169E−01−7.499418E−01 A16  3.406994E−02  9.715867E−02  1.383927E−01 3.443872E−01  5.237499E−01 A18 −7.336256E−03 −2.462704E−02−3.848675E−02 −1.347857E−01 −1.920504E−01 A20  8.576884E−04 2.670536E−03  4.607885E−03  1.597284E−02  2.923183E−02 Tenth EleventhTwelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −9.010375E+00 −8.724350E+00 A4−1.467133E−01 −9.724438E−02 −1.133351E−02 −1.064882E−02  2.037564E−02 A6 1.767273E−01  3.774437E−02  7.895412E−03 −3.839037E−02 −1.240612E−01 A8−2.064591E−01 −2.480825E−02 −2.379161E−02  6.527713E−02  8.729909E−02A10  2.243203E−01  1.463773E−02  2.306862E−02 −4.872020E−02−2.822705E−02 A12 −1.729546E−01 −4.646942E−03 −1.580767E−02 1.943507E−02  4.549829E−04 A14  8.680274E−02  3.838575E−03 8.442322E−03 −4.371045E−03  2.640268E−03 A16 −2.695350E−02−3.008955E−03 −1.344699E−03  5.443778E−04 −8.427150E−04 A18 4.713502E−03  3.200428E−04  8.929129E−05 −3.334476E−05  1.119789E−04A20 −3.560377E−01 −3.811830E−05  5.601486E−06  6.489201E−07−5.675473E−06 Aspheric Surface Data Seventh Eighth Ninth Surface SurfaceSurface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −1.740052E+02 A4 −3.040262E−02−3.696544E−03 −6.215152E−02 A6 −1.917243E−02 −7.627233E−02  2.603991E−02A8  3.617788E−01  1.113476E−01  3.687240E−02 A10 −1.289175E+00−2.864420E−01 −2.164661E−01 A12  2.668915E+00  5.919412E−01 3.980214E−01 A14 −3.122869E+00 −8.410386E−01 −4.076784E−01 A16 2.303550E+00  7.374018E−01  2.429592E−01 A18 −9.495796E−01−3.596820E−01 −7.895124E−02 A20  1.691196E−01  7.532629E−02 1.894597E−02 Fifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00 −1.664901E+02 −6.514106E+00 A4  4.908378E−02  1.829840E−01−1.884159E−01 A6 −1.451819E−01  6.514608E−02  4.831254E−02 A8 1.035187E−01 −1.571852E−02 −1.493512E−02 A10 −4.443004E−02 3.781055E−03  3.400549E−03 A12  1.198206E−02 −7.483484E−04−5.606625E−04 A14 −1.977813E−03  9.799572E−05  6.292951E−05 A16 1.856155E−04 −7.750449E−06 −4.477993E−06 A18 −6.223435E−06 3.357120E−07  1.813594E−07 A20  6.826253E−08 −6.132627E−09−3.190401E−09

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The imaging lens in Example 4 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 8 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion(%) of the imaging lens in Example 4. As shown in FIG. 8, eachaberration is corrected excellently.

Example 5

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 5.

TABLE 5 Example5 Unit mm f = 4.76

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.70 TTL = 5.95 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1 (Stop) Infinity −0.2533  2*2.1990 0.5697 1.544 55.88 (ν d1)  3* 4.0423 0.0750  4* 3.5287 0.40091.544 55.86 (ν d2)  5* 8.9853 0.0500  6* 5.0009 0.2400 1.671 19.48 (νd3)  7* 3.2089 0.4598  8* −7.3795 0.2806 1.661 20.37 (ν d4)  9* −11.34980.0420 10* 6.3916 0.4725 1.535 65.66 (ν d5) 11* 19.7842 0.4790 12*−10.0000 0.6441 3.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −2.3053 0.0150 14* 5.1933 0.36941.671 19.46 (ν d7) 15* 4.3680 0.4842 16* 35.9254 0.4430 1.535 65.66 (νd8) 17* 1.8927 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 64.20 19  Infinity0.2985 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Start Focal LensSurface Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 7.990 f34 −9.892 2 4 10.406f56 4.371 3 6 −14.097 4 8 −32.850 5 10 17.440 6 12 6.346 7 14 43.393 816 −4.038 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth SurfaceSurface Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4  5.486225E−03 −4.874030E−02−7.208791E−02 −1.214967E−01 −1.123111E−01 A6 −3.025978E−02 −1.869157E−03 1.282859E−02  1.189102E−01  1.301033E−01 A8  8.590098E−02  1.005988E−01 7.035615E−02  2.584970E−02 −2.789997E−04 A10 −1.394428E−01−2.381144E−01 −2.064985E−01 −3.844015E−01 −3.855776E−01 A12 1.396047E−01  3.006156E−01  2.922227E−01  7.241770E−01  8.245371E−01A14 −8.818680E−02 −2.284022E−01 −2.385380E−01 −7.084065E−01−8.903322E−01 A16  3.406177E−02  1.051294E−01  1.170465E−01 3.976528E−01  5.452114E−01 A18 −7.335752E−03 −2.711037E−02−3.224993E−02 −1.215644E−01 −1.799829E−01 A20  6.593708E−04 2.992147E−03  3.836222E−03  1.575809E−02  2.507054E−02 Tenth EleventhTwelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −4.842829E+00 −9.183175E+00 A4−1.575698E−01 −7.137327E−02 −1.696511E−02 −3.253744E−02  5.376003E−04 A6 2.380971E−01  1.835161E−02  2.526267E−02  3.403944E−03 −7.907425E−02 A8−3.429715E−01 −4.405635E−03 −5.951747E−02 −3.958811E−03  5.879975E−02A10  3.762547E−01 −3.087156E−02  6.369998E−02  1.819909E−02−1.951968E−02 A12 −2.728550E−01  1.685896E−02 −4.806987E−02−2.285945E−02 −9.812472E−04 A14  1.282812E−01 −9.636533E−03 2.282954E−02  1.282869E−02  2.975227E−03 A16 −3.784739E−02 2.801571E−03 −6.244941E−03 −3.641552E−03 −9.667477E−04 A18 6.391014E−03 −3.690392E−04  8.660881E−04  5.345941E−04  1.336843E−04A20 −4.726062E−04  3.733381E−05 −4.580307E−05 −2.904106E−05−6.987608E−08 Aspheric Surface Data Seventh Eighth Ninth Surface SurfaceSurface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −1.740052E+02 A4 −3.617306E−02−1.395089E−03 −9.270279E−02 A6 −8.370670E−02 −7.746172E−02  1.044895E−01A8  5.890776E−01  1.759016E−01 −6.900224E−02 A10 −1.939306E+00−5.617326E−01 −1.958685E−01 A12  3.797630E+00  1.134018E+00 5.414098E−01 A14 −4.626552E+00 −1.499371E+00 −6.253196E−01 A16 3.449219E+00  1.223495E+00  3.935637E−01 A18 −1.444364E+00−5.635420E−01 −1.321293E−01 A20  2.620696E−01  1.130857E−01 1.869803E−02 Fifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00 −1.654901E+02 −6.610224E+00 A4  2.635106E−03 −1.812937E−01−1.062651E−01 A6 −9.379264E−02  6.482922E−02  4.801942E−02 A8 7.608696E−02 −1.359715E−02 −1.514694E−02 A10 −3.652731E−02 2.477062E−03  3.523441E−03 A12  1.106021E−02 −3.835799E−04−5.868667E−04 A14 −2.086501E−03  4.227198E−05  6.581154E−05 A16 2.342278E−04 −2.850878E−06 −4.648798E−06 A18 −1.409832E−05 1.028598E−07  1.860873E−07 A20  3.440553E−07 −1.419140E−09−3.221523E−08

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The imaging lens in Example 5 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 10 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), anddistortion (%) of the imaging lens in Example 5. As shown in FIG. 10,each aberration is corrected excellently.

Example 6

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 6.

TABLE 6 Example6 Unit mm f = 4.76

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.60 TTL = 6.10 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1 (Stop) Infinity −0.3850   2*2.2990 0.6475 1.544 55.86 (ν d1)  3* 4.1984 0.0750  4* 3.7564 0.40001.544 55.56 (ν d2)  5* 9.2364 0.0500  6* 5.1814 0.2400 1.671 19.48 (νd3)  7* 3.3874 0.4789  8* −8.6967 0.2838 1.681 20.37 (ν d4)  9* −14.34700.0254 10* 6.0842 0.4826 1.535 65.66 (ν d5) 11* 11.9586 0.4284 12*−21.3527 0.7263 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −2.2634 0.0150 14* 5.2258 0.36741.671 19.48 (ν d7) 15* 4.3297 0.5143 16* 123.4657 0.4430 1.535 65.66 (νd8) 17* 1.8934 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 64.20 19  Infinity0.3018 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Start Focal LensSurface Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 8.335 f34 −10.625 2 4 11.340f56 4.047 3 6 −15.399 4 8 −34.102 5 10 22.615 6 12 4.590 7 14 −45.027 816 −3.600 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth SurfaceSurface Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4  6.593735E−03 −5.718901E−02−7.678589E−02 −1.243221E−01 −1.057164E−01 A6 −3.020039E−02  4.680507E−02 2.110959E−02  1.382617E−01  1.254319E−01 A8  8.626306E−02 −3.767968E−02 4.028405E−02 −5.397282E−02 −4.837977E−02 A10 −1.393489E−01 3.384222E−02 −3.238042E−01 −1.832333E−01 −1.856741E−01 A12 1.395973E−01  3.426556E−03  1.562044E−01  4.068979E−01  4.336189E−01A14 −8.819504E−02 −6.572981E−03 −1.075457E−01 −3.953001E−01−4.522914E−01 A16  3.406453E−02  4.268550E−03  4.462115E−02 2.103218E−01  2.580332E−01 A18 −7.329469E−03 −1.549556E−03−1.056046E−02 −5.947546E−02 −7.757733E−02 A20  6.640507E−04 2.287654E−04  1.099703E−03  7.004295E−03  9.684945E−03 Tenth EleventhTwelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −4.847815E+00 −9.348175E+00 A4−1.819298E−01 −8.868000E−02 −3.268133E−02 −6.172681E−02 −2.433812E−02 A6 3.627423E−01  3.627474E−02  5.612811E−02  6.949340E−02 −2.012911E−02 A8−6.360741E−01 −1.043647E−02 −1.024251E−01 −8.980157E−02 −1.643631E−02A10  7.607095E−01 −1.980189E−02  1.127864E−01  8.889730E−02 3.956626E−02 A12 −5.731984E−01  2.379055E−02 −8.598369E−02−5.941549E−02 −3.039717E−02 A14  2.711322E−01 −9.255137E−03 4.161282E−02  2.440912E−02  1.207549E−02 A16 −7.852283E−02 5.416312E−04 −1.185606E−02 −5.808314E−03 −2.642895E−03 A18 1.277736E−02  4.605547E−04  3.792583E−03  7.309080E−04  3.015035E−04A20 −8.979100E−04 −8.017422E−05 −1.096507E−04 −3.791016E−05−1.398291E−05 Aspheric Surface Data Seventh Eighth Ninth Surface SurfaceSurface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −1.740052E+02 A4 −1.097938E−02 1.428687E−02 −8.652449E−02 A6 −1.156454E−01 −1.254552E−01  8.713090E−02A8  7.033708E−01  3.429297E−01  3.107614E−02 A10 −2.202875E+00−1.010336E+00 −4.646444E−01 A12  4.120368E+00  1.904429E+00 9.420528E−01 A14 −4.758592E+00 −2.246262E+00 −9.470845E−01 A16 3.330612E+00  1.630238E+00  5.280145E−01 A18 −1.298325E+00−6.463187E−01 −1.566903E−01 A20  2.172236E−01  1.122478E−01 1.944633E−02 Fifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00 −1.664001E+02 −6.336284E+00 A4  5.230094E−03  1.873115E−01−1.140721E−01 A6 −8.266249E−02  6.964355E−02  6.640896E−02 A8 6.551119E−02 −1.456116E−02 −1.921850E−02 A10 −2.901143E−02 2.000897E−03  4.642722E−03 A12  7.464086E−03 −1.274914E−04−7.718337E−04 A14 −1.036319E−03  9.493552E−06  8.442191E−05 A16 5.780277E−05  2.530882E−06 −5.754320E−06 A18  1.754994E−06−1.857411E−07  2.211445E−07 A20 −2.376038E−07  4.874600E−09−3.664199E−09

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The imaging lens in Example 6 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 12 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), anddistortion (%) of the imaging lens in Example 6. As shown in FIG. 12,each aberration is corrected excellently.

Example 7

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 7.

TABLE 7 Example7 Unit mm f = 4.76

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.60 TTL = 6.14 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1 (Stop) Infinity −0.3331  2*2.3734 0.6608 1.544 55.56 (ν d1)  3* 4.9347 0.0750  4* 3.9504 0.40001.544 55.56 (ν d2)  5* 8.9219 0.0500  6* 5.9703 0.2400 1.671 19.48 (νd3)  7* 3.4817 0.4687  8* −10.3307 0.2942 0.535 25.66 (ν d4)  9*−14.9233 0.0175 10* 6.3150 0.4828 1.535 55.86 (ν d5) 11* 11.8443 0.444012* −21.7002 0.7263 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −2.0516 0.0150 14* 6.77670.3937 1.671 19.48 (ν d7) 15* 4.4819 0.5049 16* 862.5580 0.4430 1.53555.66 (ν d8) 17* 1.9084 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 64.20 19 Infinity 0.3016 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Start FocalLens Surface Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 7.701 f34 −10.797 2 412.665 f56 3.730 3 6 −12.943 4 8 −64.200 5 10 24.547 6 12 4.109 7 14−21.166 8 16 −3.577 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth FifthSixth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4  6.978491E−03−5.880821E−02 −7.374250E−02 −1.138919E−01 −9.760524E−02 A6 −3.023701E−02 5.153542E−02  1.477714E−02  1.371841E−01  1.067148E−01 A8  8.533970E−02−4.188153E−02  5.414008E−02 −1.203605E−01 −2.262593E−02 A10−1.393308E−01 −8.972292E−04 −1.620352E−01 −4.288824E−02 −2.488418E−01A12  1.395950E−01  4.312754E−02  2.183993E−01  2.706418E−01 5.604328E−01 A14 −8.820100E−02 −4.548871E−02 −1.547233E−01−3.306274E−01 −6.035198E−01 A16  3.406413E−02  2.405457E−02 7.286168E−02  2.806961E−01  3.597364E−01 A18 −7.328989E−03−6.352326E−03 −1.772977E−02 −6.257010E−02 −1.137238E−01 A20 6.665051E−04  8.514547E−04  1.840043E−03  8.000487E−03  1.497062E−02Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Surface Surface SurfaceSurface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00−5.404381E+00 −2.867602E+00 A4 −1.690688−01 −9.108641E−02 −4.054363E−02−3.095503E−02  4.621114E−03 A6  3.210982E−01  5.707541E−02  9.089039E−02 1.806458E−02 −6.998319E−02 A8 −5.794209E−01 −7.130533E−02 −1.599016E−01−4.355914E−02  3.503357E−02 A10  7.112341E−01  7.301572E−02 1.871750E−01  8.370127E−02  6.463641E−03 A12 −5.388008E−01−6.024326E−02 −1.374992E−01 −6.171370E−02 −1.704382E−02 A14 2.522613E−01  3.908900E−02  6.378357E−02  2.334015E−02  8.737869E−03A16 −7.156590E−02 −1.536711E−02 −1.751347E−02 −5.814579E−03−2.146434E−03 A18  1.133917E−02  3.714078E−03  2.565226E−03 7.512862E−04  2.617479E−04 A20 −7.738680E−04 −3.424480E−04−1.527171E−04 −3.950040E−05 −1.288431E−05 Aspheric Surface Data SeventhEighth Ninth Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00−1.740052E+02 A4 −5.515185E−03  1.848219E−02 −5.792220E−02 A6−1.747572E−01 −7.550289E−02  3.004852E−02 A8  9.783425E−01  5.393825E−02 1.237699E−01 A10 −2.895325E+00 −1.958323E−01 −6.240725E−01 A12 5.151082E+00  5.508396E−01  1.121065E+00 A14 −5.676887E+00−8.720035E−01 −1.069473E+00 A16  3.797228E+00  7.703616E−01 5.742591E−01 A18 −1.415213E+00 −3.820583E−01 −1.648835E−01 A20 2.262224E−01  7.103857E−02  1.984328E−02 Fifteenth SixteenthSeventeenth Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00 −1.864901E+02−6.000000E+00 A4 −1.808781E−02 −1.881334E−01 −1.213353E−01 A6−6.802498E−02  6.374572E−02  6.322198E−02 A8  5.612786E−02 −5.568267E−03−2.204520E−02 A10 −2.431776E−02 −3.067119E−03  5.349744E−03 A12 5.678508E−03  1.350926E−03 −8.867409E−04 A14 −5.754913E−04−2.568849E−04  9.877162E−05 A16 −1.664138E−05  2.660074E−05−6.606971E−06 A18  8.247214E−06 −1.456579E−06  2.554220E−07 A20−4.771366E−07  3.308538E−08 −4.271667E−09

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The imaging lens in Example 7 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 14 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), anddistortion (%) of the imaging lens in Example 7. As shown in FIG. 14,each aberration is corrected excellently.

Example 8

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 8.

TABLE 8 Example8 Unit mm f = 4.71

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.60 TTL = 6.37 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1 (Stop) Infinity −0.1315  2*2.5084 0.6151 1.544 55.86 (ν d1)  3* 4.6896 0.0939  4* 3.6375 0.40011.544 55.86 (ν d2)  5* 9.1244 0.0500  6* 7.0272 0.2400 1.671 19.48 (νd3)  7* 4.0958 0.4527  8* 45.9902 0.2981 1.535 55.66 (ν d4)  9* 14.47040.0321 10* 16.4355 0.6404 1.535 55.66 (ν d5) 11* 26.3774 0.0501 12*−124.7899 1.1542 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −1.8756 0.0150 14* 6.0568 0.43881.671 19.48 (ν d7) 15* 3.5609 0.6038 16* −79.3071 0.4430 1.535 55.66 (νd8) 17* 2.0972 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 84.20 19  Infinity0.3219 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Start Focal LensSurface Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 9.050 f34 −10.839 2 4 10.835f56 3.412 3 6 −15.122 4 8 −39.609 5 10 80.020 6 12 3.487 7 14 −13.850 816 −3.813 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth SurfaceSurface Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4  5.364451E−03 −6.907444E−02−6.994301E−02 −8.351065E−02 −7.869244E−02 A6 −3.075671E−02  2.303892E−02−6.387023E−03  1.162823E−01  1.080950E−01 A8  8.566083E−02  2.551471E−02 1.175496E−01 −1.429724E−01 −9.632944E−02 A10 −1.391805E−01−7.518916E−02 −2.511961E−01 −3.470973E−02 −2.074334E−01 A12 1.396531E−01  8.252330E−02  2.809506E−01  2.795942E−01  6.370717E−01A14 −8.821545E−02 −4.768431E−02 −1.840872E−01 −3.182735E−01−7.211848E−01 A16  3.408806E−02  1.433549E−02  7.038106E−02 1.759011E−01  4.322776E−01 A18 −7.324993E−03 −1.865768E−03−1.481643E−02 −5.004974E−02 −1.369182E−01 A20  6.653422E−04 3.751796E−05  1.296233E−03  5.916703E−03  1.812032E−02 Tenth EleventhTwelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −8.234970E+00 −2.975962E+00 A4−1.651272E−01  1.184390E−01  1.449418E−01 −8.152076E−02 −3.216480E−02 A6−1.108751E+00 −7.059335E−01 −6.809754E−01  9.398760E−02  1.401597E−02 A8 1.916223E+00  1.243800E+00  1.042486E+00 −8.133536E−02 −2.514762E−02A10 −1.687405E+00 −1.250000E+00 −1.109510E+00  5.700771E−02 2.096782E−02 A12  8.801090E−01  7.339716E−01  7.147250E−01−3.303984E−02 −1.005584E−02 A14 −2.811729E−01 −2.404617E−01−2.802825E−01  1.322107E−02  6.131013E−03 A16  5.275933E−02 3.760966E−02  6.531625E−02 −3.157925E−03 −1.148056E−03 A18−4.951195E−03 −1.058203E−03 −8.234522E−03  4.012433E−04  1.332558E−04A20  1.350694E−04 −2.443007E−04  4.498561E−04 −2.092758E−05−6.221267E−06 Aspheric Surface Data Seventh Eighth Ninth Surface SurfaceSurface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −1.740052E+02 A4 −1.209218E−02 1.135900E−02  2.235428E−01 A6 −7.207133E−02 −1.601005E−01 −1.247610E+00A8  3.465353E−01  2.710609E−01  2.297114E+00 A10 −6.283268E−01−2.991265E−01 −2.365440E+00 A12  1.469950E+00  1.665878E−01 1.611796E+00 A14 −1.414210E+00 −8.941981E−02 −6.042800E−01 A16 8.207519E−01  8.314158E−02  1.365897E−01 A18 −2.655846E−01−4.962753E−02 −1.222235E−02 A20  3.706744E−02  1.111298E−02−3.875018E−04 Fifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00 −1.864901E+02 −5.100600E+00 A4 −5.919973E−02 −1.288412E−01−9.073913E−02 A6  8.411911E−03  2.840614E−02  3.774853E−02 A8 1.107383E−03  3.969881E−04 −1.173706E−02 A10 −2.280386E−03−1.953762E−03  2.705942E−03 A12  1.410899E−03  7.871368E−04−4.290455E−04 A14 −3.645429E−04 −1.727576E−04  4.377913E−05 A16 5.110221E−05  2.221373E−05 −2.696938E−06 A18 −4.035571E−06−1.483567E−06  8.965640E−08 A20  1.475730E−07  3.965277E−08−1.200345E−09

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The imaging lens in Example 8 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 16 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), anddistortion (%) of the imaging lens in Example 8. As shown in FIG. 16,each aberration is corrected excellently.

Example 9

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 9.

TABLE 9 Example9 Unit mm f = 4.71

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.60 TTL = 6.29 ω(°) = 39.7 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1 (Stop) Infinity −0.2272  2*2.5926 0.5869 1.544 55.86 (ν d1)  3* 5.0038 0.1005  4* 3.6028 0.40001.544 55.86 (ν d2)  5* 8.4914 0.0500  6* 4.1435 0.2400 1.671 19.48 (νd3)  7* 2.6815 0.4348  8* 12.6389 0.4024 1.535 55.66 (ν d4)  9* 11.48340.0444 10* 21.8417 0.3711 1.671 19.48 (ν d5) 11* 9.3845 0.6501 12*13.0694 1.1477 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −2.2784 0.8160 14* 3.7069 0.38051.671 19.48 (ν d7) 15* 3.0265 0.6992 16* 80.5010 0.4430 1.535 55.66 (νd8) 17* 2.0917 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 64.20 19  Infinity0.3014 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Start Focal LensSurface Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 9.125 f34 −11.454 2 4 10.653f56 4.190 3 6 −12.119 4 8 −267.303 5 10 −24.805 6 12 3.661 7 14 −31.6808 16 −4.023 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth SixthSurface Surface Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4  3.426395E−03 −5.934329E−02−8.351809E−02 −8.239260E−02 −9.056349E−02 A6 −3.123431E−02  4.883336E−02 1.910538E−02  1.036461E−01  7.528760E−02 A8  8.680617E−02 −6.833902E−02−4.534987E−02 −1.474149E−01  8.526479E−02 A10 −1.391050E−01 9.375218E−02  9.298771E−02  9.220747E−02 −4.544496E−01 A12 1.396213E−01 −9.034316E−02 −1.292610E−01  1.341479E−02  7.953233E−01A14 −8.824783E−02  5.694599E−02  1.101172E−01 −6.317110E−02−7.733356E−01 A16  3.408346E−02 −2.185255E−02 −5.474043E−02 4.394811E−02  4.404619E−01 A18 −7.319014E−03  4.502727E−03 1.442617E−02 −1.396241E−02 −1.378594E−01 A20  6.694206E−04−3.531468E−04 −1.528849E−03  1.792219E−03  1.835081E−02 Tenth EleventhTwelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −8.682868E+00 −1.007195E+01 A4 9.311709E−02 −1.565562E−02  2.432245E−02 −5.231767E−02 −7.209585E−03 A6−6.640181E−01 −3.789292E−01 −2.821784E−01  2.925387E−02 −2.559476E−02 A8 1.311891E+00  8.678853E−01  6.056957E−01 −9.322629E−03  8.912656E−04A10 −1.488654E+00 −1.054823E+00 −7.108876E−01  1.054784E−03 1.353041E−02 A12  1.067357E+00  7.861202E−01  4.963015E−01−2.104006E−03 −1.403744E−02 A14 −4.860178E−01 −3.687968E−01−2.130757E−01  1.948335E−03  6.948403E−03 A16  1.354351E−01 1.065402E−01  5.564029E−02 −6.507693E−04 −1.858024E−03 A18−2.094155E−02 −1.739079E−02 −8.155885E−03  9.583021E−05  2.689439E−04A20 −3.560377E−01 −3.811830E−05  5.601486E−06  6.489201E−07−5.675473E−06 Ashperic Surface Data Seventh Eighth Ninth Surface SurfaceSurface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −1.740052E+02 A4 −2.758083E−02−1.515996E−02  1.710971E−01 A6 −1.065237E−01 −8.874314E−02 −8.423710E−01A8  5.086552E−01  2.812261E−01  1.655526E+00 A10 −1.553601E+00−7.469226E−01 −2.078084E+00 A12  2.401545E+00  1.269697E+00 1.719426E+00 A14 −2.328115E+00 −1.363487E+00 −9.500080E−01 A16 1.382156E+00  8.842732E−01  3.418519E−01 A18 −4.593647E−01−3.151023E−01 −7.307049E−02 A20  6.550588E−02  4.738911E−02 7.049502E−03 Fifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00 −1.664901E+02 −7.983262E+00 A4 −3.545807E−02 −1.612684E−01−7.773978E−02 A6 −2.680193E−02  7.844559E−02  3.258051E−02 A8 2.149553E−02 −4.394901E−02 −1.221380E−02 A10 −1.171975E−02 2.099532E−02  3.529112E−03 A12  4.444711E−03 −6.342170E−03−6.983206E−04 A14 −1.082500E−03  1.175526E−03  8.909129E−05 A16 1.596478E−04 −1.317776E−04 −6.988251E−06 A18 −1.296658E−05 8.263601E−06  3.028510E−07 A20  4.451175E−07 −2.205747E−07−5.572961E−09

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The imaging lens in Example 9 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 18 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), anddistortion (%) of the imaging lens in Example 9. As shown in FIG. 18,each aberration is corrected excellently.

Example 10

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 10.

TABLE 10 Example10 Unit mm f = 4.67

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.70 TTL = 5.54 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1 (Stop) Infinity −0.2450  2*1.9189 0.5870 1.544 55.86 (ν d1)  3* 3.3302 0.0752  4* 3.1012 0.41271.544 55.86 (ν d2)  5* 7.0485 0.0500  6* 4.6321 0.2400 1.671 19.48 (νd3)  7* 2.8681 0.3627  8* 23.8272 0.2800 1.661 20.37 (ν d4)  9* 13.78750.0732 10* 15.3989 0.4511 1.535 55.66 (ν d5) 11* −21.7478 0.4428 12*−43.7602 0.4065 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −5.5682 0.0438 14* 4.3977 0.36001.871 19.48 (ν d7) 15* 5.0011 0.3341 16* 4.6293 0.4430 1.535 55.66 (νd8) 17* 1.6477 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 64.20 19  Infinity0.3765 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Start Focal LensSurface Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 7.255 f34 −8.513 2 4 9.812 f567.224 3 6 −11.865 4 8 −50.079 5 10 16.929 6 12 11.918 7 14 43.793 8 16−5.045 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth SurfaceSurface Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4  2.255838E−03 −3.667393E−02−4.176112E−02 −1.316641E−01 −1.602746E−01 A6 −3.179285E−02 −3.702628E−02−3.813657E−02  2.034408E−01  2.524976E−01 A8  8.524310E−02  1.335672E−01 1.456455E−01 −1.867723E−01 −1.342479E−01 A10 −1.395405E−01−3.107805E−01 −4.247050E−01 −1.415086E−01 −4.773670E−01 A12 1.395658E−01  4.451181E−01  7.036330E−01  6.760067E−01  1.445492E+00A14 −8.813530E−02 −3.793080E−01 −6.668312E−01 −9.152546E−01−1.922514E+00 A16  3.408536E−02  1.913887E−01  3.671856E−01 6.406594E−01  1.412129E+00 A18 −7.328024E−03 −5.311794E−02−1.104116E−01 −2.335872E−01 −5.517872E−01 A20  6.808898E−04 6.257985E−03  1.409715E−02  3.515180E−02  8.960498E−02 Tenth EleventhTwelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −3.611852E+01 −1.353570E+00 A4−1.359579E−01 −7.853512E−02  9.019235E−04  3.589444E−02  6.899755E−02 A6 1.957013E−01  3.295418E−02  1.251154E−01  2.101416E−02 −1.774849E−01 A8−3.983212E−01 −7.093055E−02 −2.634518E−01 −7.639402E−02  1.092170E−01A10  5.7744213E−01  9.468820E−02  2.801873E−01  6.895875E−02−3.166939E−02 A12 −4.892676E−01 −7.023904E−02 −1.652103E−01−3.759052E−02  1.540241E−04 A14  2.540968E−01  3.794879E−02 6.883187E−02  1.303364E−02  2.715381E−03 A16 −8.136053E−02−1.437840E−02 −1.798472E−02 −2.727868E−03 −7.870692E−04 A18 1.486181E−02  3.151283E−03  2.641289E−03  3.115802E−04  9.491173E−05A20 −1.194243E−03 −2.885623E−04 −1.643216E−04 −1.491381E−05−4.343944E−06 Aspheric Surface Data Seventh Eighth Ninth Surface SurfaceSurface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −4.034014E+02 A4 −5.126354E−02−6.133089E−02 −8.638084E−02 A6  2.568081E−02  2.055639E−01  2.099274E−01A8  4.227698E−01 −1.008490E+00 −6.325360E−01 A10 −1.706536E+00 2.818032E+00  1.175763E+00 A12  3.526137E+00 −5.085498E+00−1.425088E+00 A14 −4.336259E+00  5.851001E+00  1.128342E+00 A16 3.190128E+00 −4.161614E+00 −5.689557E−01 A18 −1.292764E+00 1.666947E+00  1.652374E−01 A20  2.222680E−01 −2.584115E−01−2.125189E−02 Fifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00 −2.680472E+01 −5.964922E+00 A4  8.111158E−02 −1.656337E−01−1.102894E−01 A6 −1.905804E−01  4.264904E−02  4.590037E−02 A8 1.341615E−01 −5.058155E−03 −9.968867E−03 A10 −5.891368E−02 1.381762E−03  1.797495E−03 A12  1.697107E−02 −5.053514E−04−2.584595E−04 A14 −3.138650E−03  9.763103E−05  2.720106E−05 A16 3.522985E−04 −1.000292E−05 −1.785778E−06 A18 −2.131385E−05 5.296822E−07  6.117823E−08 A20  5.138442E−07 −1.150695E−08−7.744718E−10

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The imaging lens in Example 10 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 20 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), anddistortion (%) of the imaging lens in Example 10. As shown in FIG. 20,each aberration is corrected excellently.

Example 11

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 11.

TABLE 11 Example11 Unit mm f = 4.66

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.55 TTL = 5.54 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1 (Stop) Infinity −0.1449  2*2.1517 0.3000 1.614 25.58 (ν d1)  3* 1.8120 0.0200  4* 1.6562 0.85611.544 55.86 (ν d2)  5* 6.2783 0.0500  6* 7.0514 0.2400 1.671 19.48 (νd3)  7* 3.8740 0.3617  8* 13.1840 0.2800 1.861 20.37 (ν d4)  9* 13.24880.0241 10* 9.3361 0.3351 1.535 55.68 (ν d5) 11* 29.8944 0.4965 12*−31.1339 0.3994 1.544 55.96 (ν d6) 13* −5.5029 0.0150 14* 4.9917 0.36481.671 19.48 (ν d7) 15* 4.9861 0.3062 16* 3.0413 0.4433 1.635 55.68 (νd8) 17* 1.4308 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.617 64.20 19  Infinity0.3912 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Start Focal LensSurface Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 −28.141 f34 −13.213 2 4 3.632f56 8.486 3 6 −13.207 4 8 1500.651 5 10 25.241 6 12 12.214 7 14 263.0928 16 −5.588 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth SixthSurface Surface Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4 −1.010278E−02  1.073642E−02 1.001357E−02 −1.287908E−01 −1.533791E−01 A6 −3.586948E−02 −2.833175E−01−1.606243E−01  2.498131E−01  1.215358E−01 A8  8.675216E−02  5.821885E−01 1.453468E−01 −4.600153E−01  1.649242E−01 A10 −1.391135E−01−7.476868E−01  1.199561E−01  6.387732E−01 −6.977306E−01 A12 1.397305E−01  6.177524E−01 −4.402943E−01 −6.473584E−01  1.115761E+00A14 −8.816305E−02 −3.251111E−01  4.786558E−01  4.431272E−01−1.021832E+00 A16  3.406590E−02  1.045508E−01 −2.683538E−01−1.850964E−01  5.627711E−01 A18 −7.330397E−03 −1.835374E−02 7.842437E−02  4.136408E−02 −1.731158E−01 A20  6.675522E−04 1.283202E−03 −9.510418E−03 −3.727672E−03  2.274811E−02 Tenth EleventhTwelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −3.449505E+01  2.000000E−01 A4−2.778991E−01 −1.292417E−01 −3.656186E−02 −4.520081E−02  2.050298E−02 A6 1.162099E+00  2.240041E−01  2.307990E−01  2.850639E−01 −2.503093E−02 A8−3.153465E+00 −4.530744E−01 −3.611961E−01 −4.129629E−01 −6.654844E−02A10  4.834776E+00  5.469680E−01  2.817120E−01  3.028971E−01 7.765780E−02 A12 −4.466807E+00 −3.695183E−01 −1.357798E−01−1.354079E−01 −4.139387E−02 A14  2.583552E+00  1.471541E−01 4.242023E−02  3.829053E−02  1.276548E−02 A16 −9.243889E−01−3.506542E−02 −8.651106E−03 −6.670562E−03 −2.301159E−03 A18 1.882048E−01  4.736067E−03  1.076653E−03  6.528502E−04  2.241350E−04A20 −1.673055E−02 −2.855568E−04 −6.175403E−05 −2.749774E−05−9.097152E−06 Aspheric Surface Data Seventh Eighth Ninth Surface SurfaceSurface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4 −4.890425E−02−1.677292E−02 −1.562579E−01 A6 −2.980932E−02  1.522478E−01  9.929889E−01A8  3.954220E−01 −9.197160E−01 −3.227816E+00 A10 −9.229821E−01 2.314688E+00  5.735798E+00 A12  1.204061E+00 −3.530217E+00−6.374171E+00 A14 −9.055335E−01  3.347858E+00  4.553198E+00 A16 3.674034E−01 −1.944554E+00 −2.037951E+00 A18 −6.095357E−02 6.395576E−01  5.216632E−01 A20  3.474853E−04 −9.144484E−02−5.525892E−02 Fifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00 −4.642967E+01 −8.390597E+00 A4  1.304567E−02 −1.908972E−01−1.060256E−01 A6 −6.192061E−02  9.558202E−02  4.631268E−02 A8 1.550405E−02 −4.784080E−02 −1.555881E−02 A10  6.359650E−03 1.958380E−02  3.977203E−03 A12 −5.674877E−03 −5.074211E−03−7.505593E−04 A14  1.825599E−03  7.997120E−04  9.982941E−05 A16−3.082376E−04 −7.520963E−05 −8.869339E−06 A18  2.699983E−05 3.901557E−06  4.717705E−07 A20 −9.676983E−07 −8.624467E−08−1.121785E−08

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The imaging lens in Example 11 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 22 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), anddistortion (%) of the imaging lens in Example 11. As shown in FIG. 22,each aberration is corrected excellently.

Example 12

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 12.

TABLE 12 Example12 Unit mm f = 4.66

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.65 TTL = 5.54 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1 (Stop) Infinity −0.1485  2*2.1945 0.3000 1.614 25.58 (ν d1)  3* 1.8557 0.0265  4* 1.6501 0.84011.544 55.66 (ν d2)  5* 8.3136 0.0500  6* 6.0430 0.2400 1.671 19.48 (νd3)  7* 3.4975 0.3633  8* 18.5613 0.2800 1.061 20.37 (ν d4)  9* 15.31120.0294 10* 9.4661 0.3562 1.535 55.86 (ν d5) 11* 62.4677 0.5091 12*−34.4716 0.3923 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −5.9363 0.0150 14* 4.8252 0.37331.671 19.48 (ν d7) 15* 4.9980 0.3016 16* 3.2259 0.4430 1.535 55.86 (νd8) 17* 1.4695 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 84.20 19  Infinity0.3930 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Start Focal LensSurface Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 −29.479 f34 −11.661 2 4 3.621f56 8.310 3 6 −12.854 4 8 −137.032 5 10 20.813 6 12 13.111 7 14 111.2978 16 −5.533 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth SixthSurface Surface Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4 −1.205942E−02 −3.501114E−02−1.698905E−02 −1.152905E−01 −1.557365E−01 A6 −3.503581E−02 −1.051086E−01−6.707759E−02  1.482442E−01  1.176947E−01 A8  8.593519E−02  1.875706E−01−1.993871E−02 −1.281680E−01  1.776993E−01 A10 −1.390869E−01−1.500671E−01  3.470549E−01  2.491704E−02 −6.905816E−01 A12 1.397229E−01  2.929100E−02 −6.998945E−01  7.222518E−02  1.110530E+00A14 −8.817659E−02  6.589748E−02  7.041392E−01 −1.000039E−01−1.066971E+00 A16  3.405726E−02 −6.221931E−02 −3.978383E−01 7.074537E−02  6.332597E−01 A18 −7.332653E−03  2.259328E−02 1.207216E−01 −2.751574E−02 −2.131223E−01 A20  6.687690E−04−3.135438E−03 −1.541731E−02  4.385912E−03  3.085735E−02 Tenth EleventhTwelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −3.909476E+01 −4.000000E−01 A4−1.789633E−01 −1.030224E−01 −9.061425E−03  9.296236E−03  3.561774E−02 A6 3.344017E−01  9.758122E−02  1.302420E−01  9.966122E−02 −9.286335E−02 A8−5.802666E−01 −1.669222E−01 −2.265236E−01 −1.600207E−01  2.018407E−02A10  5.586700E−01  1.960502E−01  1.873585E−01  1.118661E−01 2.369960E−02 A12 −2.211927E−01 −1.216873E−01 −1.015079E−01−4.784046E−02 −2.216553E−02 A14 −2.537135E−02  4.378874E−02 3.799397E−02  1.317644E−02  8.622739E−03 A16  5.276956E−02−1.013653E−02 −9.538944E−03 −2.295468E−03 −1.768848E−03 A18−1.681496E−02  1.586150E−03  1.425488E−03  2.275825E−04  1.867779E−04A20  1.778171E−03 −1.310985E−04 −9.330489E−05 −9.784227E−05−8.006285E−06 Aspheric Surface Data Seventh Eighth Ninth Surface SurfaceSurface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −3.137729E+02 A4 −5.043591E−02−4.275350E−02 −8.513194E−02 A6 −4.241236E−03  2.274643E−01  3.176215E−01A8  2.600667E−01 −1.145373E+00 −9.728310E−01 A10 −4.574151E−01 2.927159E+00  1.719486E+00 A12  2.580698E−01 −4.763871E+00−2.082394E−01 A14  2.751860E−01  4.965267E+00  1.718318E+00 A16−5.317039E−01 −3.225185E+00 −9.077581E−01 A18  3.236355E−01 1.195065E+00  2.747749E−01 A20 −7.103199E−02 −1.923821E−01−3.596249E−02 Fifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00 −3.761128E+01 −7.207030E+00 A4  2.733746E−02 −1.739754E−01−1.112679E−01 A6 −9.866762E−02  5.615875E−02  4.327498E−02 A8 5.192833E−02 −1.463944E−02 −1.084719E−02 A10 −1.214074E−02 5.299788E−03  1.819740E−03 A12  1.551636E−04 −1.488497E−03−9.612321E−05 A14  8.087691E−04  2.505741E−04 −1.021767E−05 A16−1.942719E−04 −2.441639E−05  2.260762E−06 A18  1.989373E−05 1.283367E−06 −1.500144E−07 A20 −7.795914E−07 −2.833936E−08 3.487931E−09

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The imaging lens in Example 12 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 24 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), anddistortion (%) of the imaging lens in Example 12. As shown in FIG. 24,each aberration is corrected excellently.

Example 13

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 13.

TABLE 13 Example13 Unit mm f = 4.66

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.55 TTL = 5.54 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1 (Stop) Infinity −0.1408  2*2.1508 0.3000 1.614 25.58 (ν d1)  3* 1.8055 0.0200  4* 1.6505 0.88471.544 55.66 (ν d2)  5* 7.9116 0.0500  6* 6.8921 0.2400 1.671 19.48 (νd3)  7* 3.9021 0.3629  8* 13.1233 0.2800 1.661 20.37 (ν d4)  9* 13.00880.0253 10* 9.3696 0.3358 1.535 55.66 (ν d5) 11* 31.2761 0.4984 12*−30.2947 0.3988 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −5.4701 0.0151 14* 4.9934 0.36131.671 19.48 (ν d7) 15* 4.9850 0.3061 16* 3.0373 0.4436 1.535 55.86 (νd8) 17* 1.4297 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 84.20 19  Infinity0.3918 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Start Focal LensSurface Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 −27.350 f34 −13.724 2 4 3.650f56 8.439 3 6 −13.844 4 8 −84445.498 5 10 24.880 6 12 12.195 7 14271.126 8 16 −5.588 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth FifthSixth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4 −1.003929E−02 1.181913E−02  1.045509E−02 −1.287439E−01 −1.534487E−01 A6 −3.585458E−02−2.835422E−01 −1.477472E−01  2.476923E−01  1.223996E−01 A8  8.578021E−02 5.755138E−01  1.278041E−01 −4.483194E−01  1.615702E−01 A10−1.391055E−01 −7.298350E−01  1.619780E−01  6.044723E−01 −6.901695E−01A12  1.397287E−01  5.936255E−01 −4.973967E−01 −6.014102E−01 1.103378E+00 A14 −8.816256E−02 −3.061285E−01  5.251071E−01 4.075530E−01 −1.007730E+00 A16  3.406551E−02  9.590631E−02−2.905678E−01 −1.690811E−01  6.528102E−01 A18 −7.330637E−03−1.626930E−02  8.416857E−02  3.745373E−02 −1.692989E−01 A20 6.674888E−04  1.075105E−03 −1.012955E−02 −3.326535E−03  2.214627E−02Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Surface Surface SurfaceSurface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00−3.449505E+01  2.000000E−10 A4 −2.680805E−01 −1.307682E−01 −3.981281E−02−4.588337E−02  2.133645E−02 A6  1.112657E+00  2.335859E−01  2.464538E−01 2.895144E−01 −2.468602E−02 A8 −3.018460E+00 −4.713113E−01 −3.923009E−01−4.205829E−01 −7.009561E−02 A10  4.594752E+00  5.600221E−01 3.174270E−01  3.098735E−01  8.219688E−02 A12 −4.187706E+00−3.706905E−01 −1.613467E−01 −1.391745E−01 −4.410935E−02 A14 2.378629E+00  1.438941E−01  5.387023E−02  3.950751E−02  1.365538E−02A16 −8.336343E−01 −3.335778E−02 −1.175101E−02 −6.901724E−03−2.466417E−03 A18  1.651682E−01  4.383252E−03  1.535599E−03 6.767454E−04  2.404368E−04 A20 −1.447826E−02 −2.589690E−04−9.082283E−05 −2.853972E−05 −9.761844E−06 Aspheric Surface Data SeventhEighth Ninth Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 A4 −4.912423E−02 −1.423111E−02 −1.464068E−01 A6−2.695293E−02  1.419904E−01  9.355436E−01 A8  3.798839E−01 −9.155903E−01−3.066597E+00 A10 −8.716884E−01  2.377518E+00  5.460194E+00 A12 1.099523E+00 −3.708625E+00 −6.069169E+00 A14 −7.734257E−01 3.581625E+00  4.337504E+00 A16  2.667865E−01 −2.113598E+00−1.945485E+00 A18 −1.883062E−02  7.045161E−01  4.999774E−01 A20−7.757655E−03 −1.017874E−01 −5.612865E−02 Fifteenth SixteenthSeventeenth Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00 −4.642967E+01−8.361343E+00 A4  1.354480E−02 −1.916331E−01 −1.066259E−01 A6−6.302902E−02  9.610785E−02  4.711592E−02 A8  1.586564E−02 −4.770377E−02−1.591577E−02 A10  6.780955E−03  1.933385E−02  4.027570E−03 A12−6.085272E−03 −4.962313E−03 −7.411360E−04 A14  1.980080E−03 7.755224E−04  9.523790E−05 A16 −3.381278E−04 −7.234559E−05−8.165811E−06 A18  2.983710E−05  3.721521E−06  4.220758E−07 A20 1.083660E−06 −8.155677E−08 −9.855407E−09

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The imaging lens in Example 13 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 26 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), anddistortion (%) of the imaging lens in Example 13. As shown in FIG. 26,each aberration is corrected excellently.

Example 14

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 14.

TABLE 14 Example14 Unit mm f = 4.67

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.55 TTL = 5.54 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1 (Stop) Infinity −0.1734  2*2.1444 0.3000 1.614 25.58 (ν d1)  3* 1.7922 0.0263  4* 1.6407 0.88091.544 55.56 (ν d2)  5* 7.2253 0.0500  6* 6.8556 0.2400 1.671 19.48 (νd3)  7* 3.6377 0.3497  8* 10.7022 0.2963 1.544 55.86 (ν d4)  9* 23.87160.0432 10* 14.5567 0.2695 1.671 19.48 (ν d5) 11* 18.9900 0.4933 12*−21.8578 0.4175 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −4.9056 0.0271 14* 5.2904 0.39491.671 19.48 (ν d7) 15* 5.2461 0.2971 16* 3.5125 0.4456 1.535 55.86 (νd8) 17* 1.5284 0.4845 18  Infinity 0.2100 1.517 64.20 19  Infinity0.3822 Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Start Focal LensSurface Length Composite Focal Length 1 2 −26.284 f34 −25.851 2 4 3.694f56 10.399 3 6 −14.955 4 8 35.360 5 10 90.660 6 12 11.550 7 14 331.597 816 −5.489 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth SurfaceSurface Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4 −1.035919E−02  1.592574E−02 1.809089E−02 −1.241171E−01 −1.516567E−01 A6 −3.599710E−02 −3.234264E−01−1.949634E−01  2.452632E−01  1.272417E−01 A8  8.586921E−02  6.976698E−01 2.540720E−01 −4.420349E−01  1.379277E−01 A10 −1.390508E−01−9.401977E−01 −6.433763E−02  5.911982E−01 −6.469116E−01 A12 1.397431E−01  8.167632E−01 −2.657741E−01 −5.843337E−01  1.049123E+00A14 −8.816221E−02 −4.548940E−01  3.762241E−01  3.949471E−01−8.819606E−01 A16  3.406401E−02  1.567054E−01 −2.320486E−01−1.635222E−01  6.288395E−01 A18 −7.331605E−03 −3.018157E−02 7.133722E−02  3.612253E−02 −1.623684E−01 A20  6.672825E−04 2.437583E−03 −8.928028E−03 −3.195873E−03  2.130273E−02 Tenth EleventhTwelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −3.449505E+01  6.000000E−01 A4−2.547130E−01 −1.272932E−01 −2.924758E−02 −2.799073E−02  2.620973E−02 A6 9.393408E−01  2.358755E−01  2.414040E−01  2.352386E−01 −4.388036E−02 A8−2.607538E+00 −5.047287E−01 −4.094505E−01 −3.673449E−01 −5.646925E−02A10  4.313307E+00  6.569068E−01  3.553405E−01  2.888151E−01 8.033502E−02 A12 −4.361537E+00 −4.936226E−01 −1.943644E−01−1.379665E−01 −4.599011E−02 A14  2.761513E+00  2.244028E−01 6.937887E−02  4.132463E−02  1.471769E−02 A16 −1.073481E+00−6.197368E−02 −1.598392E−02 −7.546922E−03 −2.708805E−03 A18 2.347086E−01  9.573336E−03  2.182510E−03  7.672002E−04  2.869309E−04A20 −2.211445E−02 −6.577931E−04 −1.332488E−04 −3.331165E−05−1.090038E−05 Aspheric Surface Data Seventh Eighth Ninth Surface SurfaceSurface  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −4.936780E−02−6.800515E−03 −1.934888E−01 −4.155293E−02 −9.951760E−04  1.105202E+00 4.462469E−01 −1.127479E−01  3.632510E+00 −1.032399E+00  1.140454E−01 6.844843E+00  1.328525E+00  7.215778E−02 −8.089031E+00 −8.705742E−01−3.184587E−01  6.078108E+00  3.680235E−01  3.250383E−01 −2.829741E+00−4.733845E−02 −1.442676E−01  7.471277E−01 −4.303147E−03  2.482301E−02−8.555570E−02 Fifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface 0.000000E+00 −4.527985E+01 −8.437124E+00  2.035801E−02 −1.909067E−01−1.072663E−01 −7.996639E−02  9.297962E−02  4.584799E−02  3.360904E−02−4.400508E−02 −1.436399E−02 −4.054974E−03  1.729995E−02  3.318627E−03−1.884577E−03 −4.350465E−03 −5.602170E−04  9.474360E−04  6.676737E−04 6.679400E−05 −1.838203E−04 −6.113030E−05 −5.397784E−06  1.722712E−05 3.083433E−06  2.688020E−07 −6.425857E−07 −6.617025E−08 −6.160842E−09

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The imaging lens in Example 14 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 28 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), anddistortion (%) of the imaging lens in Example 14. As shown in FIG. 28,each aberration is corrected excellently.

Example 15

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 15.

TABLE 15 Example15 Unit mm f = 4.66

 h = 3.93 Fno = 1.55 TTL = 5.54 ω(°) = 39.2 Surface Data SurfaceCurvature Surface Number i Curvature Distance d Refractive Abbe (Object)Infinity Infinity Index Nd Number νd 1 (Stop) Infinity −0.1887  2*2.1457 0.3000 1.614 25.58 (ν d1)  3* 1.7984 0.0233  4* 1.6441 0.67131.544 55.66 (ν d2)  5* 6.9421 0.0500  6* 5.2085 0.2400 1.671 19.48 (νd3)  7* 3.5029 0.3595  8* 10.8678 0.2828 1.544 55.86 (ν d4)  9* 15.98970.0543 10* 20.5585 0.2699 1.671 19.48 (ν d5) 11* 13.7816 0.4095 12*10.0010 0.4362 1.544 55.86 (ν d6) 13* −6.8688 0.1083 14* 5.3208 0.39081.671 19.48 (ν d7) 15* 5.1721 0.3036 16* 3.4440 0.4430 1.535 55.86 (νd8) 17* 1.5500 0.4845 18 Infinity 0.2100 1.517 64.20 10 Infinity 0.3723Image Plane Infinity Constituent Lens Data Start Focal Lens SurfaceLength Composite Focal Length 1 2 −26.941 f34 −23.150 2 4 3.741 f5610.054 3 6 −16.884 4 8 61.142 5 10 −63.285 6 12 8.707 7 14 4934.173 8 16−5.738 Aspheric Surface Data Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth SurfaceSurface Surface Surface Surface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4 −1.039293E−02  6.531980E−02 3.232918E−02 −1.383309E−01 −1.514892E−01 A6 −3.596725E−02 −5.484489E−01−2.461838E−01  3.187506E−01  1.320678E−01 A8  8.585550E−02  1.254029E+00 3.187377E−01 −6.319111E−01  1.262758E−01 A10 −1.390739E−01−1.773315E+00 −2.268023E−02  8.874112E−01 −6.343286E−01 A12 1.397294E−01  1.598121E+00 −4.460498E−01 −8.790233E−01  1.045067E+00A14 −8.816706E−02 −9.168898E−01  5.841848E−01  5.830843E−01−9.709739E−01 A16  3.406376E−02  3.242482E−01 −3.514336E−01−2.376677E−01  6.421827E−01 A18 −7.330607E−03 −6.423595E−02 1.063118E−01  5.237451E−02 −1.698469E−01 A20  6.680060E−04 5.407463E−03 −1.311248E−02 −4.696706E−03  2.283098E−02 Tenth EleventhTwelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Surface Surface Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 −3.449505E+01  9.000841E−01 A4−2.909711E−01 −1.591037E−01 −5.114778E−02  3.465943E−02  4.936763E−02 A6 1.101086E+00  3.052521E−01  2.523664E−01  9.800017E−02 −9.088957E−02 A8−3.004448E+00 −5.789390E−01 −4.597557E−01 −2.038844E−01 −1.241336E−02A10  5.018737E+00  7.143063E−01  4.513300E−01  1.696418E−01 5.248953E−02 A12 −5.168595E+00 −5.233775E−01 −2.735275E−01−8.201457E−02 −3.082503E−02 A14  3.328464E+00  2.340402E−01 1.066116E−01  2.433611E−02  1.129588E−02 A16 −1.311447E+00−6.395257E−02 −2.503807E−02 −4.342347E−03 −2.129472E−03 A18 2.897701E−01  9.961638E−03  3.522890E−03  4.276860E−04  2.135672E−04A20 −2.753001E−02 −6.826570E−04 −2.175921E−04 −1.793169E−05−8.850266E−06 Aspheric Surface Data Seventh Eighth Ninth Surface SurfaceSurface k  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00  0.000000E+00 A4 −4.652242E−02 9.332567E−02 −2.073631E−01 A6 −6.937114E−02 −7.095699E−01  1.210795E+00A8  5.513467E−01  2.469027E+00 −4.007815E+00 A10 −1.261420E+00−5.649845E+00  7.553550E+00 A12  1.646962E+00  8.225399E+00−8.880387E+00 A14 −1.256748E+00 −7.645811E+00  6.608713E+00 A16 5.277153E−01  4.381340E+00 −3.039598E+00 A18 −8.761526E−02−1.405289E+00  7.921933E−01 A20  2.280757E−03  1.929082E−01−8.960577E−02 Fifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Surface Surface Surface k 0.000000E+00 −4.917323E+01 −9.178005E+00 A4  3.466854E−02 −1.789037E−01−9.704356E−02 A6 −9.469313E−02  6.630755E−02  2.601903E−02 A8 3.348821E−02 −2.183717E−02  8.613155E−04 A10  1.868140E−03 7.948109E−03 −3.030739E−03 A12 −5.163369E−03 −2.081754E−03 1.007936E−03 A14  1.799220E−03  3.360496E−04 −1.880296E−04 A16−3.046811E−04 −3.219723E−05  1.552949E−05 A18  2.629975E−05 1.693527E−06 −7.521216E−07 A20 −8.258052E−07 −3.789189E−08 1.478394E−08

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The imaging lens in Example 15 satisfies conditional expressions (1) to(15) as shown in Table 16.

FIG. 30 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), anddistortion (%) of the imaging lens in Example 15. As shown in FIG. 30,each aberration is corrected excellently.

In table 16, values of conditional expressions (1) to (15) related tothe Examples 1 to 15 are shown.

TABLE 16 Conditional expression Example1 Example2 Example3 Example4Example5 Example6 Example7 Example8 (1) νd7/νd8 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.350.35 0.35 0.35 (2) (D1/|f1|) × 100 7.33 7.61 7.48 7.55 7.13 7.77 8.586.80 (3) (D7/TTL) × 100 6.14 6.15 6.11 6.14 6.21 6.02 6.38 6.89 (4)D4/D8 0.63 0.64 0.65 0.63 0.63 0.64 0.65 0.67 (5) D7/D8 0.81 0.81 0.810.81 0.83 0.83 0.88 0.99 (6) f6/f 1.35 1.35 1.37 1.37 1.12 0.96 0.860.74 (7) |f7|/

5.58 10.94 16.55 9.11 10.48 9.46 4.44 2.94 (8) f8/f −0.88 −0.88 −0.88−0.85 −0.79 −0.76 −0.75 −0.81 (9) r4/f 1.72 1.82 1.76 1.75 1.89 1.941.87 1.94 (10) r12/f −1.10 −1.03 −1.12 −0.91 −0.48 −0.48 −0.43 −0.40(11) (T4/TTL) × 100 1.79 1.52 1.41 0.62 0.71 0.42 0.28 0.50 12) |f1|/f1.63 1.59 1.61 1.60 1.68 1.75 1.62 1.92 (13)|f4|/f 22.07 79.88 79.878.43 6.90 7.15 13.48 8.42 (14) f34/f −2.27 −2.46 −2.71 −2.20 −2.08 −2.23−2.27 −2.30 (15) f56/f 1.28 1.33 1.32 1.24 0.92 0.85 0.78 0.72Conditional expression Example9 Example10 Example11 Example12 Example13Example14 Example15 (1) νd7/νd8 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 (2)(D1/|f1|) × 100 6.43 8.09 1.07 1.02 1.10 1.14 1.11 (3) (D7/TTL) × 1008.05 8.50 6.59 6.74 6.53 7.13 7.06 (4) D4/D8 0.91 0.63 0.63 0.63 0.630.66 0.64 (5) D7/D8 0.86 0.81 0.82 0.84 0.81 0.89 0.88 (6) f6/f 0.782.55 2.62 2.81 2.61 2.48 1.87 (7) |f7|/

6.73 8.39 56.41 23.87 55.13 71.14 1057.91 (8) f8/f −0.85 −1.08 −1.20−1.19* −1.20 −1.18 −1.23 (9) r4/f 1.80 1.51 1.77 1.78 1.70 1.55 1.49(10) r12/f −0.48 −1.21 −1.18 −1.27 −1.17 −1.05 −1.90 (11) (T4/TTL) × 1000.71 1.32 0.44 0.53 0.46 0.78 0.98 12) |f1|/f 1.94 1.55 6.03 6.32 5.865.63 5.78 (13)|f4|/f 56.80 10.73 321.75 29.38 18104.82 7.58 13.11 (14)f34/f −2.43 −2.04 −2.83 −2.50 −2.94 −5.54 −4.96 (15) f56/f 0.89 1.551.82 1.78 1.81 2.23 2.16

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When the imaging lens according to the present invention is adopted to aproduct with the camera function, there is realized contribution to thewide field of view, the low-profileness and the low F-number of thecamera and also high performance thereof.

DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS

-   ST: an aperture stop,-   L1: a first lens,-   L2: a second lens,-   L3: a third lens,-   L4: a fourth lens,-   L5: a fifth lens,-   L6: a sixth lens,-   L7: a seventh lens,-   L8: an eighth lens,-   ih: a maximum image height,-   IR: a filter, and-   IMG: an image plane.

1. An imaging lens comprising, in order from an object side to an imageside, a first lens having a convex surface facing the object side nearan optical axis, a second lens, a third lens having negative refractivepower near the optical axis, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens,a seventh lens, and an eighth lens having a concave surface facing theimage side and the negative refractive power near the optical axis,wherein an image-side surface of said eighth lens is formed as anaspheric surface having at least one pole point in a position off theoptical axis, said sixth lens has positive refractive power near theoptical axis, an object-side surface of said seventh lens is a convexsurface facing the object side near the optical axis, and a belowconditional expression (1) is satisfied:0.15<νd7/νd8<0.55  (1) where νd7: an abbe number at d-ray of the seventhlens, and νd8: an abbe number at d-ray of the eighth lens. 2-14.(canceled)